V7 and Future updates

[petrvecera]

Hi guys

I finally managed to update one of my personal projects to v7 from v6.

First - the v7 is really awesome ! 👏 I am really impressed, all the new functions, approaches all of that make sense. The new props and so on are great. 🚀

Second - the upgrade was not streightfoward. This is small app / just few views. It took 3 hours to just be able to run the app and then additional 2 hours to make it look as it was before.

• 👍 Documentation of changes, I think it's really good. I was able to find most of the things, guides how to change things and proceed. Thank you 🙏
• 👎 It's a lot of changes. Often changing the default behavior and so on. And I understand that it was needed. We needed to do a deep cut.

Please for future updates, consider utilizing deprecation of the props when possible. I know that sometimes it can't be done but making the components and features as much backward compatible as possible while gradually deprecating the behavior can significantly help in the migrations. When you can build your app and see all deprecation warnings, you can gradually migrate the components to the new versions.

I know that we will never be able to move some bigger team projects to v7, it's just so many changes. And I think that this is similar for most people as per looking at NPM downloads. Sure, over time v7 will grow over v6 but it's shame that so many projects where left behind.

But anyway, thank you for the great new features! And I am looking forward to the new versions. 😀